Icon of the Mother of God the "Unfading Bloom"

Commemorated on April 3

In this icon, the Most Holy Theotokos holds Her Divine Son upon Her right arm. In Her left hand is a bouquet of white lilies. This bouquet symbolically signifies the unfading flower of virginity and spotlessness of the All-Pure Virgin, Whom the Church hymns: “Thou art the Root of virginity and the Unfading Blossom of purity.”

Copies of this icon were glorified at Moscow, Voronezh, and other places throughout Russia.